September 23rd, 2022 • Autumn Sypus & Kent Waddington
The 2021 Green Health Care Awards were announced Wednesday September 21st and Thursday September 22nd respectively, at virtual award presentations held by the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care. The awards, made possible with support from Ontario’s Save on Energy initiative, honour Canada’s most sustainable health care organisations.
Recognition through the Green Health Care Awards is predicated upon the results of a completed Green Hospital Scorecard (GHS) survey, a comprehensive ‘Made in Canada’ health care benchmarking tool that measures hospitals’ performance in a number of crucial categories.
This year’s awards honoured the top performing Canadian hospitals in Energy and Energy Behaviour as well as Water, Waste, Leadership and Pollution Prevention categories. The hospitals with the best overall scores in their respective peer groups receive the Green Hospital of the Year Award. This year’s winners:
Green Hospital of the Year
Royal Victoria Regional Health Centre (Barrie ON) – Community
Hamilton Health Sciences – Ron Joyce Children’s Health Centre (Hamilton ON) – Academic
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON)– Non-Acute
Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small
Water
Markham Stouffville Hospital (Markham ON) – Community
The Ottawa Hospital – General Hospital (Ottawa ON) – Academic
Provincial Health Services Authority – Sunny Hill Health Centre (Vancouver BC) – Non-Acute
Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small
Waste
Ross Memorial Hospital (Lindsay ON) – Community
Trillium Health Partners – Queensway Health Centre (Toronto ON) – Academic
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON) - Small
Leadership
Peterborough Regional Health Centre (Peterborough ON) - Community
University Health Network (Toronto ON) – Academic
Sinai Health – Mount Sinai Hospital (Toronto ON) – Academic
Health Sciences Centre Winnipeg (Winnipeg MB)– Academic
Unity Health Toronto (Toronto ON) – Academic
Trillium Health Partners (Toronto ON) – Academic
Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto ON) – Academic
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre (Toronto ON) – Academic
London Health Sciences Centre – University Hospital (London ON) – Academic
Rockyview General Hospital (Calgary AB) – Academic
Sinai Health – Hennick Bridgepoint Hospital (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
West Park Healthcare Centre (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON) - Small
Pollution Prevention
Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg ON) – Community
Markham Stouffville Hospital (Markham ON) – Community
Unity Health Toronto - St. Michael’s Hospital (Toronto ON) – Academic
Hospital for Sick Children (Toronto ON) – Academic
Unity Health Toronto - St. Joseph’s Health Centre (Toronto ON) – Academic
Unity Health Toronto - Providence Healthcare (Toronto ON) – Academic
West Park Healthcare Centre (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital (Toronto ON) – Non-Acute
Kemptville District Hospital (Kemptville ON) - Small
Energy Ontario
Northumberland Hills Hospital (Cobourg ON) – Community
Unity Health Toronto – Providence Healthcare (Toronto ON) – Academic
St. Joseph’s Health Care – Parkwood Institute Mental Health Care Building (London ON) – Non-Acute
Four Counties Health Services (Newbury ON) – Small
Energy Canada-Wide
Fraser Health Authority – Langley Memorial Hospital (Langley BC)– Community
Providence Health Care – St. Paul’s Hospital (Vancouver BC) – Academic
Energy Behaviour
St. Joseph’s Health Care London (London ON)
Originally developed by the Ontario Hospital Association (OHA) nine years ago in conjunction with an advisory committee of hospital staff and staff from the Coalition, the GHS is the only comprehensive environmental benchmarking tool in Canada specific to health care. In 2016, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care became custodian of the Green Hospital Scorecard Awards program, continuing to make the program available to Ontario hospitals, and subsequently expanding the program to hospitals across Canada. In the near future, the Coalition will introduce a new scorecard dedicated to Canada’s long-term care and retirement homes.
The GHS provides a vehicle for standardized, sector-specific environmental benchmarking and to connect hospitals with environmental information that will assist them in making decisions to achieve environmental and economic benefits such as reduced greenhouse gas emissions, improved energy and water efficiency and increased climate change resiliency.
Visit https://greenhealthcare.ca/ghs/ to learn more about the GHS.
Contact autumn@greenhealthcare.ca for any questions regarding the Green Hospital Scorecard and the Green Health Care Awards.